Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science - Fatal Police Shootings: Patterns, Policy, and Prevention

Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume of The ANNALS sheds new light on fatal police shootings, the institutional practices that perpetuate them, and the policy changes needed to stop their recurrence. 

 

List of contents

Introduction
Evidence-Based Policing and Fatal Police Shootings: Promise, Problems and Prospects - Lawrence W. Sherman
Patterns of Fatal Police Shootings
Organizational Accidents and Fatal Police Shootings: Theory, Research, Policy and Practice - David Klinger
Firearms Availability, Trauma Centers, and Fatal Police Shooting Rates - Daniel Nagin
The Role of Individual Officer Characteristics in Police Shootings - Gregory Ridgeway
Predicting Bad Policing: Burdensome and Racially Disparate Policing, Social Psychology, and Routine Activities Theory - Philip Atiba Goff
Officer Complaint History, Social Networks, and Police Who Shoot - Linda Zhao and Andrew Papachristos
Policy-Making and Fatal Police Shootings
Police Killings as a Problem of Governance - Franklin E. Zimring
Social Interaction Training to Reduce Police Use of Force - Geoffrey Alpert, Jeff Rojek, Scott Wolfe and Kyle McLean
Moving Beyond "Best Practice:" The Need for Evidence to Reduce Officer-Involved Shootings - Robin Engel, Hannah McManus, and Gabrielle Isaza
Reducing violent incidents between police officers and people with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders - Harold Pollack and Keith Humphreys
Preventing Avoidable Fatalities
Police Transport of Shooting Victims to Hospitals: Effectiveness and Scalability - Sara F. Jacoby, Paul M. Reeping, and Charles C. Branas
Reconciling Police and Communities With Apologies, Acknowledgements, or Both: A Randomized Experiment - Thomas O'Brien, Tracey L. Meares, and Tom R. Tyler
Preventing Avoidable Deaths in Police Encounters With Citizens - Lawrence W. Sherman
Afterword: A Policy-Maker's View
Fatal Police Shootings and the US Department of Justice - Laurie O. Robinson

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence W. Sherman, Lawrence W. W. Sherman
• Assisted by: Lawrence W Sherman (Editor), Lawrence W. Sherman (Editor), Lawrence W. W. Sherman (Editor), Sherman Lawrence W. (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781071815557
• ISBN: 978-1-0-7181555-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Annals of the American Academy; The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Politics & government, Politics and government, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology